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难关和简单难度体验区别很大，难关不止怪攻血高还有怪物摆放位置都不一样拐角杀会比简单多，不过有些拐角杀会有另一个拐角能观察发现怪也是一种提取预判的乐趣了；难关是恐惧→愤怒→愉悦的情绪循环那简单和故事模式就只有愉悦和兴奋了

Good game. Deep dive into puzzles related to Japanese folklore and concepts, decent combat and amazing polished graphics. Best part of the game - the story and the atmosphere of the small sleepy hill town. Eerie throughout, constant goosebump simulator especially in some places like the school, which reminded me of horror animes I had watched as a child like Ghost Stories and Detective School Q, very unsettling vibes indeed. 9/10 game

Me gusto mucho el juego, se siente la tensión en muchos momentos la historia esta muy buena, al final de la primera ruta te deja como diciendo que rayos paso aquí, lo que no me gusto fue la cantidad excesiva de enemigos que aparecen al final, parece que al final no te da tanto miedo el entorno por como es, si no más por la cantidad de enemigos que hay y siendo un silent hill recuerdo que la tensión en el ambiente era super notoria en los juegos previos con los sonidos a metal, oscuridad o neblina, en fin creo que es un buen juego que te sacara algunos sustillos.

A pretty game that struggles to shake off an insipid start and drags itself down with unconsidered combat while being overshadowed in an increasingly impressive market segment. I can’t help thinking that the modern industry has lost a sense of how to build large and engrossing exploration environments -- such as the hospitals and apartment blocks the Silent Hill series has been famous for. Here, they seem to have all the raw materials required for the “run around and solve puzzles and dodge monsters and generally get lost” style gameplay, and yet it never really materializes. I do like the world they’ve constructed for the game to live in. Unlike most Silent Hill games, it’s set in historical Japan and feels like a pretty nice reconstruction of it. But the spaces are made to be run through, and run through only once -- which makes them less immersive environments with environmental storytelling and more backgrounds scrolling past. There are some exceptions to this, but when I see something like this, all I can think about is the construction hours to gameplay minutes ratio. The reason for this appears to be storytelling; this game is oriented around its story in a way that most Silent Hill games are not. This demands an amount of linearality that undermines the sense of mystery and exploration. And sure, this can work, but here it seems to be the wrong call. For one, the story is one of the weakest aspects of the game. I can’t help compare this game to its cousin, the remake of Silent Hill 2 (which I adore). Both the original and the remake (along with other games, such as the fromsoft catalogue) demonstrate how effective it can be to under-express the story when combined with exploration. This was a striking feature of the original SH2, and looking back it’s hard to know if it was genius or insanity. But it worked back then, and the remake team was very smart in how they kept that light storytelling touch, and amped up the acting and other features to make it work even better. The early part of the story involves the main character and her friends; in SH2’s philosophy, just the initial cut scene where they all meet would be enough to establish all the dynamics and characteristics necessary, but SHf feels it’s necessary to include multitudes of additional cut scenes full of jabber to reestablish and “develop” the same points. On top of that, the characters and relationships are just too plain, too cliché, too tedious. It is a story that needs time to bloom, yes -- but I’m not sure I buy that as an excuse. Combat doesn’t really work. You can always tell when the dev team acknowledges there’s an unfixable issue when the default difficulty is “story.” Here, it’s made worse by the way the natural mechanics strongly motivate the player to kill nothing. I felt pretty silly just running past everything and shrugging it off every time I was hurt. By contrast, the SH2 remake surprised me in the opposite way: this style of slow, heavy recovery combat is not as easy to pull off as it seems, and it’s a design challenge that you have to respect in order to solve. The world can be quite pretty and believable. Art is good, and there are some particular stand-outs in some more elaborate enemy models, as well as the VFX for the red plants and character transformations. This kind of Houdini-like procedural effect is good growth for the industry in general, I think. There are some boss fights, and it breaks my heart a little because there’re some good elements there, even if they don’t quite come together. The classic “Silent Hill eerie” feeling is just not there. I’m not entirely sure if this is intentional or not, as there are some moments where they seem to try to get there; but I guess it must be. The puzzles are not good. Here’s another design challenge that requires respect; it’s very easy to make a bad Silent Hill puzzle, it’s very difficult to make a good one. You’ve got to reject the first 99 drafts to find the one that works. The scarecrow puzzle is their exception -- that works on multiple levels, but it’s also fairly elaborate. The game is intentionally only mildly translated. Having some understanding of Japanese culture will definitely help you understand both the story and the puzzles. Very few dev teams working on this scale would be brave enough to make these kinds of demands on an international audience, and I definitely applaud them for that. There is a central topic that the story revolves around; the topic is interesting, only it’s just not clear if the game actually has anything much to say about it. That makes me a little uncomfortable about some of the weightier plot events. Reading this back, I’ve been more negative than I expected. I cannot deny the effort, love, and attention that’s gone into this game by its developers. It is enjoyable to play, and it’s educational when it comes to game development and Japanese culture. Still, I feel I still have to give it a “not recommended,” even if I do so with a heavy heart.

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